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Covid -19.
Total cases 245,900
China 80,967 +39
Total deaths 10,048
China 3,248 +3

% deaths/cases
Italy 8.3%
Spain 4.6%
China 4%
UK 4%
US 1.5%
SK 1%

Countries 181
(Selected)
Italy 41035 (deaths 3405)
Iran 18407 (1284)*
Spain 18077 (831)
USA 14365 +576 (217 up 10)
SK 8652 +87 (94 up 3)
UK 3629 (144)
Indonesia 309 (25)
* unreliable data.

Summary
Total cases 245,900
New cases 1006
Total deaths 10,048 (4%)
New deaths 20
Recovered 88,465.

US overnight:
DJ +188 (20087)
SP +11 (2409)
NS +161 (7151) 2%
R2 +68 (1059) 7%
California citizens have been told to stay indoors over worries that 20m could be infected by May unless a lockdown is put in place. NYSE took a breather hopefully for some quite reflection. The Dow has sunk 30% ytd and 32% from 52wk high in Feb when worries over the virus and impact on mrkts first surfaced in the West on Jan 21st.

Asia is up towards close on hopes that the actions taken by the Fed and Central Banks will limit the likely recession coming our way, 2Q of neg growth which looks odds on. That we can deal with as long as global trade doesn't seize up, it's a prolonged depression (1929-1940) that hit America after the Wall St crash that worries me a lot more.
TK (Holiday)
HK +540 (2%)
SH +4
SK +71 (5%)

Nos:- Oil $ 29.21. Vix 72.
Gold $1485. Palm $ 645.
$1.167. € 1.084. PI 5696.
FP 5473. MSCI(Wl) 404.
FF +23. DF -90.
Morning all.

Cpo closed at session high of $654 up $25 a welcome relief for plantation estates. China is getting back to work very quickly said Martin Sorrell founder of WPP which is helping the recovery in palm prices.

Crude had a better day gaining $1.70 to $28.18 on hopes that Russia and SA can reach a compromise on output.
Oil stocks have been hammered and the North Sea drillers cannot pay their way on oil at much below $70 and gas prices have fallen 50% which ain't helping.

Premier Oil a classic case has fallen from 100 to 17 in one month! Even Big Oil (RDSB & BP) have crashed c.50% in Feb/Mar pretty much unheard of as I dont think BP fell as much over the Gulf of Mexico disaster and the billions they had to pay in reparations, mind you the OP wasn't $28 back then!

Lovely part of the world where you are without, been up there a few times in my youth.

Has anybody noticed how p**s poor the internet and this site has become since this goddam virus?

Good luck without hope it goes away soon, take paracetamol. I just popped down to my local CO OP on the off chance...blimey very much a Soviet era shopping experience. I walked out empty handed...another omelette and bread and butter lunch!

Lucky you...wish I could join you!!

Where is everyone today?

Went sub 4000 in Feb 2009. Just a few days ago I thought 5500 might be the floor then revised to 4500. Looks like crash one is over and were now headed to crash 2 that's 5000- 4000. After that it's pretty much all over as businesses will have disappeared
the market will be riven by bears
pis will have long departed swearing never to risk their money into stock markets again.
I think most of us can handle the usual type crash or downturn but there's nothing normal about this one. The speed of the rout is most worrying yet some say best get the worst over quickly for the recovery to start. Perhaps?
If America goes into lockdown all bets are off, we will be in crash 3 and then a mega global recession.

At Aug 2009 levels and looks lower.

Ftse sub 5000!

Bill Ackman CE0 of Pershing Square Capital paints a dire picture of what might happen unless Trump shuts down America for 30 days to contain the virus spread. He has urged Banks to cease buybacks and put their capital to use helping consumers and businesses.

Trump is working on a $1trn stimulus package which includes sending cheques to people (helicopter money) but has stopped short of a Wuhan style lockdown. Ackman says he has been aggressively buying Hotel stocks which are in a terrible mess due to nobody booking as business travel and holidays have slumped. No hotel or any business can survive for a prolonged period without cash in the till. Boeing is the other stock in imminent danger of going broke. It has slumped to $100 from c.$400 (75%) and is unlikely to survive without a Govt bailout. Hilton has slumped 50% and Marriott 60% in the last month.

China has turned the corner due to the draconian measures taken by CCP. Will America swallow what the Chinese went through or have they left it too late and how would the global economy react to America shutting down? Not good!!

Goodness knows why the media etc...are in uproar about the lack of testing facilities? What's the point? I have been told to stay well away from my local surgery, (they don't say forever but it's what they want)....as they will not be having any face to face appointments.
Can I be tested on the internet, the cloud or in downtown Mogadishu? Will i have to pay £350 to be privately tested like that Elba bloke?
Know what? Fcuk the lot of them!

Are we moaning about the lack of testing for this virus? Well, how are you going to get tested? I have been told to stay away from my Surgery as no face to face visits will take place.
Guess I'll have to get tested on line or on the bloody cloud or pay £350 quid privately. Think I'll give it a miss.

In Denmark 1 hand gel costs £5.
2 hand gels cost £100. " do ya feel rich punk?"
Disgraceful scenes outside some London supermarkets with hundreds queueing outside well before opening time. I say queueing, more like milling around like a rioting mob.
Pointless really there's nothing on the shelves anyway as deliveries are coming from China and get stacked at their convenience.
Be quicker to pop over to Copenhagen and do your shopping, I'm told the shelves are overflowing.

All's well with the world this morning....fcuk the virus!

I'm in self exclusion atm but last week I went up to Iceland and gave up when I saw all the shouting idiots pushing and shoving outside the store. Some people are a bloody disgrace!

Dead right dodger. Have heard some horror stories on London Radio. One store had a mass of people queueing up round the block about 50 yards long and this before morning opening!
Where's Old Bill when you need him? Oh yes the Army have taken over their duties to allow them to catch up on form filling and booking motorists.

In Denmark 1 hand gel costs £5.
2 hand gels cost £100. " do you feel rich punk?"

Look on the G web site. Dont you think you could have presented the results in a more understandable way? I know I could.